Stand Up for Nature is run by Jamie Unwin, a wildlife cameraman, national geographic explorer and award-winning wildlife photographer. Jamie has filmed for the BBC, Netflix, Apple, Nat Geo and Channel 4. He shoots and directs the Stand Up for Nature films.
A talented Kenyan team do all the post production and when in Kenya lead the bicycle-powered cinema showings. |
"I’ve always felt helpless in the face of all the depressing news regarding the plight of the planet's environment and its inhabitants. I was incredibly fortunate to travel to Malawi in 2015 as it opened my eyes to conservation and made me realise that it’s certainly not impossible to help our diminishing wildlife populations. Coupling my scientific background with wildlife filming has enabled me to target what I feel so most passionate about; wildlife crime and human wildlife conflict."
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Later that year Jamie gained the support of Sony to help him to make a film in Malawi - this was when we discovered that a lot of people all across Africa had never seen a lot of their world-famous wildlife. We wanted to use films to inspire people in Malawi about wildlife but we needed a way of showing the film! Not being able to afford to buy a bicycle-powered cinema, Jamie designed and built our own. So during our 2015 university Christmas holidays we headed back to Malawi and led our first ever Bicycle-powered cinema project down the entire length of the country. We worked with 21 different partners and managed to show 14,000 people the film in just 6 weeks. Please see the short video to see what we got up to!
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